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A unique account of Cold War history during the Khrushchev era by one who witnessed it firsthand at his father's side.
Author : Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271021706
A unique account of Cold War history during the Khrushchev era by one who witnessed it firsthand at his father's side.
Author : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271023328
Nikita Khrushchev&’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that &"we will bury you&" is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career the motivation for Khrushchev&’s actions wasn&’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev&’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was &"we will bury colonialism&"). This is the first volume of three in the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In this volume, Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and then Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. He vividly portrays life in Stalin's inner circle and among the generals who commanded the Soviet armies. Khrushchev&’s sincere reflections upon his own thoughts and feelings add to the value of this unique personal and historical document. Included among the Appendixes is Sergei Khrushchev&’s account of how the memoirs were created and smuggled abroad during his father&’s retirement.
Author : Nikita S. Chruščëv
Publisher :
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Kathleen E. Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674972007
January: after the ice -- February: a sudden thaw -- March: a flood of questions -- April: early spring -- May: fresh air -- June: first flush of youth -- July: intellectual heat -- August: by the sweat of their brows -- September: ocean breezes -- October: storm clouds -- November: winds from the east -- December: the big chill
Author : Melanie Ilic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1134023634
This book examines the social and cultural impact of the 'thaw' in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. With individual case studies exploring key aspects of Khrushchev's period of office, it offers an important new perspective on the Khrushchev era.
Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393324842
Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.
Author : William J. Tompson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312163600
Details the former Soviet leader's life and career, from his peasant origins through his rise to power and subsequent fall
Author : William Tompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349256080
Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the rise and fall of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drawing on newly available archival materials and a wealth of recently published Russian and Ukrainian sources, this standard biography provides much new information on Khrushchev's life and career. Khrushchev's ultimate failure to realise his vision of the Soviet future is linked to the unrealistic optimism of that vision as well as to the contradictions inherent in Khrushchev's views and policies.
Author : Sergei Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0585386145
More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews, and memoirs. (A partial version of his memoirs was published in three volumes in 1970, 1974, and 1990, and a complete version was published in Russia in 1999 and will appear in an English translation to be published by Penn State Press.) But even with the opening of party and state archives in 1991, as William Taubman points out in his Foreword, many questions remain unanswered. "How did Khrushchev manage not only to survive Stalin but to succeed him? What led him to denounce his former master [an event that some interpreters herald as the first act in the drama that led to the end of the USSR]? How could a man of minimal formal education direct the affairs of a vast intercontinental empire in the nuclear age? Why did Khrushchev’s attempt to ease East-West tensions result in two of the worst crises of the Cold War in Berlin and Cuba? To resolve these and other contradictions, we need more than policy documents from archives and memoirs from associates. We need firsthand testimony by family members who knew Khrushchev best, especially by his only surviving son, Sergei, in whom he often confided. "As Sergei says, "During the Cold War our nations lived on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, and not only was it an Iron Curtain but it was also a mirror: one side perceived the other as the 'evil empire,' and vice versa; so, too, each side feared the other would start a nuclear war. Neither side could understand the real reasons behind many decisions because Americans and Russians, representing different cultures, think differently. The result was a Cold War filled with misperceptions that could easily have led to tragedy, and we are lucky it never happened. And still, after the Cold War, American-Russian relations are based on many misunderstandings." In this book Sergei tells the story of how the Cold War happened in reality from the Russian side, not from the American side, and this is his most important contribution. Sergei N. Khrushchev was born in 1935 when his father was Moscow party chief. He accompanied his father on major foreign trips—to Great Britain in 1956, East Germany in 1958, the United States in 1959, Egypt in 1964, among many others. After he became a control systems engineer and went to work for leading Soviet missile designer Vladimir Chelomei, Sergei attended many meetings at which his father transacted business with key leaders in the Soviet defense establishment. He has received many awards and honors for his work in computer science, missile design, and space research. Besides his many technical publications, he has published widely on political and economic issues. In 1991 Little Brown published his memoir about his father’s last years, Khrushchev on Khrushchev. In that same year he received an appointment to the Center for Foreign Policy Development of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where he is today. He and his wife, Valentina Nikolayevna, applied for U. S. citizenship in 1999, an event widely covered in the media.
Author : Library of Congress. Legislative Reference Service
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 1959
Category : World politics
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